March – April 2005
At the time of writing, the world was still reeling from one of the worst natural disasters in living memory. The death toll is now over 280,000. So much has been written about the event, but a reflective article by William Rees-Mogg in The Australian included the following observations:
“Mankind…
Upon the Earth Distress of Nation Read More »
The first seven verses of this chapter make up the First Servant Song. The chapter presents to us the failure of the national servant, Israel (18–20); and this is contrasted with the success of the individual servant, the Son of God, Jesus Christ (v1–7). It was a moral impossibility that the…
Our last article gave a general introduction to the subject of grief. The purpose of this article is to introduce some of the major concepts of the grief process by a consideration of the development in thinking about grief and so provide a background and context to the following articles which co…
“But though He cause Grief, yet will He have Compassion” Read More »
It has been said that the thought is the father of the deed. This is so. No one ever robbed a bank without first thinking, “I’m going to rob a bank.” Every act, every crime, every good deed is first a thought and then a fact.
It may sound over simplified but all we have to do in order to do…
Think Right, Do Right Read More »
To follow the Lord we must first count the cost. A half-hearted devotion to the Lord does not escape his scrutiny. He knows whether we want the best of both worlds or worst, waste our talents, our energy, our time on ourselves and give him second best. Where is our heart? What really dominates our t…
We concluded the first part of our consideration upon God with the question: are our lives leading us towards God—as He intended, and which was why He made us in His own image and likeness—or are we walking a walk that is taking us away from Him? This is a question we need to resolve if it is ou…
For most of us who were born after World War 2, the Asian Tsunami of 26 December 2004 was a jolt to our sense of comfort and wellbeing. One minute all was calm in Asia and India; the next minute many coastal regions were enveloped in surging death.
Our modern generation has never before witnessed…
When Yahweh Ariseth to Shake Terribly the Earth Read More »
December 26, 2004 in the Indian Ocean was relatively uneventful till 7:58:53 local Indonesian time. Then 160km off the west coast of Sumatra the fourth largest earthquake since 1900 struck. Thirty kilometres below sea level an estimated 1200 kilometres of fault-line slipped when the edge of the Burm…
Men’s Hearts Failing Them for Fear Read More »
A number of articles in this issue of The Lampstand make reference to the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami that killed thousands and devastated many towns and villages. We have also been reminded of the great earthquake yet to come and in this article by Brother Roberts in 1880 he links the …
The Great Earthquake Read More »
On Boxing Day, 26 December 2004, a natural disaster of stupendous proportions occurred. An earthquake registering nine on the Richter scale shook the seabed off the western shores of the Indonesian province of Aceh. A fault line 1200 kilometres long suddenly gave way, slipping twenty feet and creati…
Understanding God in a Time of Trouble Read More »
